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by nafizh 1825 days ago
It seems the author has added an appendix [0] where he replaces the library parser with a hand-rolled one.

0. http://buildyourownlisp.com/appendix_a_hand_rolled_parser
2 comments
EamonnMR 1825 days ago
Oh, neat. I'll have to give that a look.
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juped 1825 days ago
the author should not have written this. why would anyone ever hand-roll a parser? it's neither useful nor interesting
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EamonnMR 1823 days ago
The same reason that they wrote their own parser generator instead of using Lex/YACC.
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